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AQUATELOS A Thesis Presented to the Faculty ... - Cornell University

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1. POLLEN ZONES<br />

Little Dawn Horse, did you know<br />

how your kind would grow and grow?<br />

anything<br />

happens<br />

even with blind dough<br />

grapes, lice:<br />

<strong>the</strong> skin of<br />

is where <strong>the</strong> action<br />

ne<strong>the</strong>rs<strong>to</strong>ry<br />

metas<strong>to</strong>ry<br />

[Anaximander: “Ape iron”]<br />

a fine polygamy<br />

reared most every one, set out<br />

ground laws, determinants,<br />

<strong>the</strong> eating game <strong>the</strong> bleeding game<br />

boiled down <strong>to</strong> paste each<br />

species acts and tastes <strong>the</strong> same<br />

superposition of motives<br />

dahlias and freesia<br />

produces stickleback cichlid<br />

OVERSPARKING Drosophila Agonistes<br />

or <strong>the</strong> swerve in<strong>to</strong><br />

supreme Christlike sidekick<br />

aes<strong>the</strong>tics<br />

forgive us<br />

[<strong>the</strong> contextually nonfunctional]<br />

botulism<br />

recidivism<br />

but let’s not get ahead of <strong>the</strong> games<br />

postglacial nuzzle, Holoscenic<br />

37-acre fungus grows<br />

[Pavia]<br />

mordant<br />

with fiefdom<br />

or Spallazani catching 52 bats<br />

in a certain belfry<br />

<strong>to</strong> blind <strong>the</strong>m, later find <strong>the</strong>m<br />

replete with bug meal<br />

blind and “intact” alike saved<br />

by attending <strong>to</strong> <strong>the</strong>ir own<br />

voices<br />

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